Blue-eyed Carpenter Bee

thanks Ahn Tuan, its funny how there were three spottings of clearly the same species of carpenter bee with three distinct IDs.

SachindraUmesh, No, it's not Xylocopa violacea. I agree with jazz.mann: this is Xylocopa tenuiscapa

when I do the the wikipedia for the scientific name entered above, it goes to a page for violet carpenter bee (doesn't mention "blue-eyed), and the pictures dont have the blue eyes that our spottings have

after further research, I found an email from my guide call who called mine a giant carpenter bee, xylocopa tenuiscapa. wondering which ID is more correct?

I just uploaded a spotting of this same bee yesterday. I had been trying to identity it for many years now with no luck until I discovered the "Lens" feature on my google photo app on my android phone (where I upload my photos to show them on my phone). That cool new app came up with "carpenter bee" but the pictures I found of those didn't have the beautiful colors on the wings. I knew I spotted it in Sri Lanka, so I googled carpenter bee sri lanka, and that lead me to this page and this site thanks to which I finally figured out what I had shot. So I joined and started uploading my photos now too. check out my version of this beautiful bee.

Love those wings!